Rules of Minegagement
Reading the pieces, especially reading about Chimero’s “platforms,” reminded me of the game sensation that’s been sweeping the internet of late: Minecraft. Minecraft is a game with no goals or missions except for those the players create for themselves. The world of the game is comprised of cubic blocks of stone, dirt, and wood, which players can dig up, acquire, and use to construct things. The game is little more complex than that, and yet the people playing it have created castles, spaceships, all kinds of pixel art, and even more impressive structures (such as the construction of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings seen above.)
That’s what it seems like social practice should be: creating a framework that enables the participants to do something that they wouldn’t be able to do or think about something they wouldn’t otherwise think about.
